Tuesday, June 24, 2014

“Though we or an angel from heaven, preach any other
gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed”
(Galatians 1:8).

Oh, what solemn words to speak! “Removed to another
gospel and under the Divine curse.” It is the revelation again of the law of
the curse, and the only hope of escape at Calvary. If he will not have Christ
as the curse for him, then he comes under the curse for himself. In truth the
curse is already upon him, and it is only awaiting the working out of its
blighting results. Think of the man who preaches something other than the
Gospel of the Cross of Calvary! It is blight in itself to blight other people’s
lives with falsehood, which ends them in a hopeless eternity. It is a blight to
have professing Christians in other lands turning aside from the atoning work
of Jesus Christ, because men in England preach “another gospel” than the Gospel
of Calvary. It is an awful thing for preachers and ministers to deepen the
curse on men by failure to preach the one Divine Gospel of the Cross. “Let him
be accursed!” Let the curse he will not see upon the Lamb of God come to its
fruition in himself! Oh, how solemn! God’s Word has declared it, and shows us
that these things are working today, whether we see them or not.

-Adapted from J. Penn-Lewis, in James A.
Stewart’s daily devotional guide Drops from the Honeycombs, reading for
Feb. 7th.

WASTED YEARS -CHARLES H. SPURGEON

Yes those wasted years over which we sigh
shall be restored to us. God can give us such plentiful grace that we shall
crowd into the remainder of our days as much of service as will be some
recompense for those years of unregeneracy over which we mourn in humble
penitence.

The locusts of backsliding, worldliness,
lukewarmness, are now viewed by us as a terrible plague. Oh that they had never
come near us! The Lord in mercy has now taken them away, and we are full of
zeal to serve Him. Blessed be His
name, we can raise such harvests of spiritual graces as shall make our former
barrenness to disappear. Through rich grace we can turn to account our bitter
experience, and use it to warn others. We can become the more rooted in
humility, childlike dependence, and penitent spirituality, by reason of our
former shortcomings. If we are the more watchful, zealous, and tender, we shall
gain by our lamentable losses. The wasted years, by a miracle of love, can be
restored. Does it seem too great a boon?

Let us believe for it, and live for it,
and we may yet realize it, even as Peter became all the more useful a man after
his presumption was cured by his discovered weakness. “Lord, aid us by thy
grace” (Faith’s Checkbook)

SOMETHING TO
REMEMBER

Remember the German pastor and theologian Martin
Niemoller. As a staunch anti-Communist concerned about the spread of
Bolshevism, he initially supported Adolf Hitler. But when Hitler insisted on
the supremacy of the state over religion, Niemoller became the leader of a
group of clergymen opposed to Hitler and his increasingly alarming policies.
Hitler detested Niemoller and had him arrested and sent to a concentration
camp. Along with hundreds of others, he was liberated from Dachau in 1945 by
the Allies.

His sobering words regarding apathy need to be heard
and heeded by Christians everywhere today:

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews,
And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . .
And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

"Man is totally incapable, he is without any
strength at all in the matter of his salvation... Man as he is born into this
world is totally unable to please God. His righteousness is but as filthy rags.
Man does not like to be told that, and he does not believe it."- Martyn
Lloyd-Jones via Monergism Books

TIDBITS
ABOUT THE BIBLE

"The Christian is bred by the Word,
and he must be fed by it." - William Gurnall

"The Scripture is the library of the
Holy Ghost; it is a pandect of divine knowledge, an exact model and platform of
religion. The Scripture contains in it the 'credenda' (the things which we are
to believe) and the 'agenda' (the things which we are to practice)." -
Thomas Watson

"Our object should not be to have
scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any
sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to
be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without
hesitation." William Symington.

“Since most things mankind learns is from
books, why would men say that God's book is untrue? The burden of proof is on
them, for they are saying some other writings by Bible denying atheists are
more true than the Bible. They are actually saying in effect that other books
are greater, more accurate, more infalliable than the Bible. The Bible claims
to be the word of God; accurate; infalliable. Put it to the test!” -Charles
Woodruff

“If we compare the present state of
the New Testament text with that of any other ancient writing, we must...
declare it to be marvelously correct. Such has been the care with which the New
Testament has been copied - a care which has doubtless grown out of true reverence
for its holy words.... The New Testament is unrivaled among ancient writings in
the purity of its test as actually transmitted and kept in use.” Benjamin
Warfield

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